A Gas Refinery in the Scenic Hills

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Wed, 7. July 2010

A Gas Refinery in the Scenic Hills

Campbelltown Comment
It's inappropriate and it's been withdrawn - but for how long?
In April 2010, AGL proposed to construct a  gas refinery at nearby Varroville. It was given 'State Significant' status by the NSW Government. Because of their past 'form' on a previous 'State Significant' project, I wrote a letter to the Macarthur Chronicle, predicting AGL and Labor would withdraw the Varroville proposal before the 2011 State election and reintroduce it after the election:
So far, this has played out as I expected it would. Three months after introducing this unfortunate proposal, which is in the middle of Campbelltown's Scenic Hills area, the project has just been withdrawn and the local Labor MPs and Labor Mayor have been scrambling to associate themselves with the decision to scrap it. No doubt the election leaflets demonstrating the MPs power in community affairs are already being prepared.

I don't believe a word of it. We have not heard the last of this unwanted and misplaced local project. The temporary withdrawal of an unpopular project just before an election is a tactic AGL and the ALP are very experienced at. Scrapped? Unlikely. Postponed? Almost certainly. It's an exact duplication of what AGL did with the unpopular Leafs Gully Power Station proposal four years ago. That project was 'cancelled' just before the 2007 State election, thanks to Labour Party arm twisting - but after local MPs were safely re-elected it was approved by the current Labour Premier.

Until AGL actually relinquishes the land at Varroville, it would be premature for anyone in the community to assume that they will use it for anything other than the 'State Significant' Gas Refinery Project that they originally planned on using it for. It will be back on the agenda next April. You can bet on it.

in Campbelltown Comment at 10:00
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